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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. And for thousands of years the lizards, rodents, and birds of North America adapted to Fishers, Badgers, Wolverines, Ermines, etc. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7